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CLARENCE H WHITE (1871-1925)
The Orchard, 1902
waxed platinum print
signed in pencil (recto); signed in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 938 x 7 in. (23.8 x 17.8 cm.)
Provenance
William T. Utter, professor of Ohioan history at Denison University, Granville, Ohio;
Christie's New York, April 20, 1994, Lot 4;
acquired from the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, no. 9, January 1905.
Beaumont Newhall and Robert Doty, Photo-Secession: Photography as a Fine Art, George Eastman House, Rochester, 1960, pl. XIII.
Helen Gee, Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession: Pictorialism to Modernism 1902-1917, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, exhibition catalogue, 1978, p. 22.
Alfred Stieglitz and Marianne Fulton Margolies (ed.), Camera Work: A Pictorial Guide, Dover Publications, New York, 1978, p. 22.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., The Waking Dream: Photography’s First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, Harry N. Abrams in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, pl. 126, p. 173.
Bonnie Yochelson and Kathleen A. Erwin, Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence H. White School of Photography, Rizzoli, New York, 1996, p. 13.
Keith Davis, An American Century of Photographs: From Dry-Pate to Digital: The Hallmark Collection, Hallmark Cards in association with H.N. Abrams, Kansas City, 1999. pl. 17, p. 67.
Exhibited
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painterly Photographs: The Raymond E. Kassar Collection, December 2, 2000 - February 11, 2001.
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Other platinum prints of this image are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris. This is the only platinum print of the image to have appeared at auction.

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